A Sacramento pastor and her two grandsons have been identified as the three people found dead in a home this weekend. The three had ties to a church with an emphasis on ministry missions overseas.

Christine Lucas, 68, is survived by husband John Lucas, the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office said Monday. Church websites say they are pastors of Gloryland Revival Center International Ministries in Sacramento.

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She is grandmother of the other two victims, Marquise Brown, 23, and James Robert Ferrell, 19.

There have been no arrests and police have no primary suspect, Sacramento police spokesman Matthew McPhail said Monday.

"We still have not established a motive in the cases," he said. "Typically, crimes like this are a fairly passionate crime and it is the exception rather than the rule that victims of a crime under these circumstances would be some sort of a random act."

John Lucas is senior pastor of the non-denominational church. Its website says he has been a pastor for 22 years and has traveled extensively for missions in the Philippines for the last 13 years and to Hong Kong for the last four years. Officials at the church said Monday that they had no immediate comment.

A biography on Faith Ministries International Network says "Tina" Lucas was a co-pastor of the church in south Sacramento. It says the couple helped feed Muslim children in the Philippines and Nigeria, and they were helping to build a church in the Virgin Islands.

Brown aspired to work with the Sacramento Regional Conservation Corps, a local nonprofit education and workforce training program for young adults ages 18 through 25. He had been taking basic classes through the affiliated John Muir Charter School since September to earn his high school diploma, said David DeMers, the program’s executive director.

"He was a young man of hope and he was coming from a very difficult environment and background," DeMers said Monday. He said Brown was very friendly, but had difficulty arriving at 7 a.m. to be eligible for the work program.

"You don’t just change overnight, none of us do," DeMers said. "We just ran out of time with him."